Workshop
Foundations in CFT for Psychosis - Level 1
This is a 3 hours online workshop with Dr Charlie Heriot-Maitland
From £10 • Card, PayPal & bank transfer available
About this workshop
This introductory workshop provides an accessible overview of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for psychosis. It is suitable for anyone interested in understanding distressing voices, paranoia, unusual beliefs, and other experiences associated with psychosis, including practitioners, peer support workers, experts by experience, family members, carers, students, and support staff.
Participants will be introduced to key principles of Compassion Focused Therapy, including how evolution has shaped the human brain with a natural bias towards threat detection and self-protection. The workshop explores how processes such as dissociation, vigilance to threat, shame, trauma, and social rank concerns can contribute to experiences such as voice-hearing and unusual beliefs.
Drawing on a compassion-focused understanding of psychosis, participants will learn how these experiences can often be understood as meaningful attempts to manage threat, distress, or difficult life experiences. The workshop introduces compassion-focused formulations of voice-hearing and unusual beliefs, with particular attention to their protective functions and their links to trauma, relationships, and emotional wellbeing.
The training also introduces the concept of the compassionate self and explores how cultivating compassionate mind states can create a sense of safeness that supports recovery and wellbeing.
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Yes, this workshop will be recorded on zoom. Once the workshop has finished all delegates will receive a follow-up email with the links to view these along with any extra resources. These will be available to view for around 3 months post-event. The recordings are edited, so will be made available roughly a week after the workshop has finished.
Yes, this workshop will be recorded on zoom. Once the workshop has finished all delegates will receive a follow-up email with the links to view these along with any extra resources. These will be available to view for around 3 months post-event. The recordings are edited, so will be made available roughly a week after the workshop has finished.
Unfortunately, this workshop will not be suitable for those with no prior CFT training. The trainer will be teaching the workshop on the assumption that all attendees have a good understanding of the model and will not have time to go over this. We recommend first attending one of our Introduction to CFT workshops, which we run several times a year.
Due to the interactive nature of this workshop, and particularly that it will contain a lot of group work, we feel you'd be missing too much of its value if you cannot participate live. So all delegates will need to attend live. Any delegates that have signed up but don't attend will not receive a CPD certificate.
Please get in touch at hello@compassionatemind.co.uk if you can now longer attend this workshop and need to change your booking.
Yes, this absolutley fine. The workshop will be recorded, and you'll be able to catch up on anything you've missed for up to a month after the live broadcast.
No, this is for personal practice, and is open to all.
This workshop is aimed at those who have a good grounding in the foundations of Compassion Focused Therapy, so we do require that you have completed an Introductory workshop beforehand (please check the topics covered in the Introduction to CFT workshop on our Training Pathway). We generally recommend leaving at least six months between completing an Introductory workshop and attending the Clinical Skills workshop in order to give yourself time to practise with your clients, as this workshop will be aimed to helping you to build on your skills.
Introductory workshops held by other organisations will be accepted, so long as they are at least two days in length, include the topics covered in our Introduction to CFT course, and are led by a recognised CFT trainer. For any queries about this, please email hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
Yes, this course is suitable for those who are new to CFT, although some knowledge of the basics may be helpful.
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